This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/6/2008
From the Beatles' eight-day, five-city visit to Sweden in October ‘63 comes this extraordinary artifact. On the evening of October 26, 1963, The Beatles sat down with accomplished Swedish journalist Lars Widding to fulfill the interview obligation with the Expressen newspaper. Widding, the father of a teenage daughter who was a huge Beatle fan, decided to bring his daughter along for the evening so that she could attend the concert and also have an opportunity to meet the group. As many did during the time, Widding's daughter had created a homage to the group in the form of a handwritten lyric book, accented by a variety of vintage newspaper clippings of the Beatles' images along the front and back covers. At her memorable meeting with the Fab Four during her father's interview session, Widding's daughter presented her lyric book to the band in hopes of getting them to sign the inside. Not only did the group sign the inside, but all four were apparently quite amused by the creation and took time to browse through the book before handing it back to young Ms. Widding at the end of the interview. Presented here in this lot is Ms. Widding's book, completely intact in its original form, beautifully signed by The Beatles on the first two pages: "Paul McCartney," "John Lennon," (reverse side of McCartney page) "Best wishes from George Harrison" and "Ringo Starr" (reverse of Harrison page). All signatures are large and complete examples. Paul has also signed again, on the back inside cover and added "(Beatles)" and amazingly he even actually took the time to make a slight correction on one of the lines written by the teenage fan on the lyric for "P.S. I Love You", and he corrected by writing "these few words til we're together". The song "P.S. I Love You" was written by Paul and John and it appears on the Beatles' first LP on Parlophone Records entitled "Please Please Me". Estimate: $9,000 - $10,000.